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Do you remember 1973?
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What was hot and what was not...
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Music: Number ones of '73
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Sweet - Blockbuster
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Slade -
Cum On Feel The Noize
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Donny Osmond
- The Twelfth Of Never
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Gilbert O'Sullivan
- Get Down
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Dawn featuring Tony Orlando -
Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree
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Wizzard
- See My Baby Jive
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Suzi Quatro
Can The Can
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10 CC
- Rubber Bullets
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Slade
- Skweeze Me Pleeze Me
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Peters & Lee - Welcome Home
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Gary Glitter -
I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am)
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Donny Osmond -
Young Love
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Wizzard
- Angel Fingers
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Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level
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David Cassidy
- Daydreamer
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Gary Glitter
- I Love You Love Me Love
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Slade
- Merry Xmas Everybody
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Entertainment
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David Bowie becomes the biggest selling artist since The Beatles, hitting the eight million record mark
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Trevor McDonald join ITV news as the first black news reporter
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Marlon Brando refuses his Oscar for Best Actor as a protest against the plight of Native Americans
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Stunt motor-cyclist Evil Knievel is the hero of the moment
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Stevie Wonder wins his first Grammy award
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Paul McCartney is fined $240 after pleading guilty to charges of growing marijuana outside his Scottish farm
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The Wombles first appear on TV
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Women are allowed on the trading floor of the London Stock Exchange
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Jon Pertwee is Doctor Who
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Sport
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Second Division Sunderland beat a top flight Leeds United team boasting ten international players in the FA Cup Final
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Liverpool win the UEFA Cup
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Bobby Charlton plays his last league match for Manchester United - at Stamford Bridge, against Chelsea
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Jackie Stewart wins his third and last formula One World Championship and also becomes ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sports Personality of the Year
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Billie Jean King retains her Wimbledon singles title
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Czech Jan Kodes wins the Wimbledon men's title. Amazingly, there is only one grass court in Czechoslovakia, which is his own!
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Red Rum wins the Grand National for the first time
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George Foreman becomes World heavyweight champion after beating Joe Frazier
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The sport of snowboarding is born
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Films
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The Sting – con-artist film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford which won best picture and best director for George Roy Hill at the Oscars
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Don't Look Now – Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie star. The unnerving image of a little girl in a red cloak wandering the streets of Venice has become iconic
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The Exorcist – landmark horror film starring Linda Blair as troubled child Regan MacNeil. Noted for its revolutionary special effects including the infamous scene of Regan's spinning head
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The Day of the Jackal – starring Edward Fox. A professional assassin codenamed Jackal plots to kill France's Charles de Gaulle
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Mean Streets – starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel and directed by Martin Scorsese. The tale of Tony, Michael and Charlie's lives on the mean streets of Little Italy, New York
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American Graffiti – starring Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard. A coming of age film about two college graduates on their last night of freedom before they each have to decide what to do for the rest of their lives
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The Wickerman – starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland. Woodward plays a detective on the hunt for a missing girl
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Serpico – starring Al Pacino as a morally upstanding cop who is fighting against the corruption of his colleagues. Earnt him a best actor nomination at the Oscars
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A Touch of Class – Glenda Jackson's Oscar-winning performance as the long suffering wife of a philandering American businessman
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Paper Moon – starring Ryan and Tatum O'Neal. Tatum won best supporting actress Oscar. Road movie following a young girl and a travelling con man, based on the novel by Joe David Brown
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Live and Let Die – Roger Moore's first outing as suave double agent 007
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Enter the Dragon – starring Bruce Lee. America's first martial arts blockbuster, following a martial arts expert as he goes undercover to infiltrate a drug dealing emporium
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Births
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David Blaine,
Andrew Lincoln,
Kate Beckinsale,
Peter Kay,
Paula Radcliffe,
Peter Andre,
Juliette Lewis,
Leigh Francis (Avid Merrion),
Monica Seles,
Neve Campbell,
Faith Evans,
Ryan Giggs, Anastacia...
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Marriages and divorces
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Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips
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Anthony Hopkins marries his second wife Jennifer Lynton
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Michael Caine marries Shakira Baksh
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Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorce
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Zappo Marx and Barbara Blakely divorce (Barbara would later marry Frank Sinatra)
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Deaths
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Noel Coward, JRR Tolkien, Bobby Darin, Fay Holden,
Veronica Lake, Nancy Mitford, W.H. Auden...
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